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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Technology
Introduction	An IT professional born in 1971. He’s been programming since 1983, started college at age 15 in 1987, got his first professional IT gig doing Oracle SQL*Forms in 1989 at age 17, took a lot of time off in college for IT work experience, earned a BS degree in 1994 in Statistics & Computer Science, and has been working full-time in the IT industry ever since. Alex has worked in a variety of roles including developer, project manager, technical architect, DBA, functional analyst, systems administrator, etc. on assignments in all 4 US time zones, Russia and Poland. Alex is a self-starter that stays current on best practices for the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and in applying these practices towards building real-world business solutions. Presently his focus is on Team Foundation Server (TFS), Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS), Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS), C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server and certainly other skills in the future. Alex is a US citizen that has a Defense Department Top Secret clearance and a Department of Homeland Security clearance. Someday he hopes to be a Chief Technology Officer for an ambitious organization.
Interests	Great relations and teamwork with work associates, Relatives, Travel, History, Friends, IT Industry, Financial Markets, USA National Civic Affairs, Living Life to the Fullest. I've been preparing myself to someday be a Chief Technology Officer.
Favorite movies	Lots
Favorite music	I especially like 80s music because I grew up on it. I also like good classical music because I've played a lot of it. I played the cello for most of my childhood (and some in college) in many orchestras. I play the piano but not greatly but I know enough to impress and can pick up new ones). I've played the trumpet, baritone and string bass in the past but can hardly do so now. I even like some current 2008-2009 top 40 pop music though I can't keep up on it. I've liked to code listening to movie soundtracks but find that I do less listening at work since I spend a lot more time integrating "open source" code than building it from scratch than in the past.
Favorite books	In the past couple years I've read hundreds of biographies of US presidents, inventors, business leaders and world leaders over the past 2000 years. I used to read a lot of other genre and still do some but biographies/history are my favorites.